Cut-film holder.



F. W. BARNES & F.W .`LOVE10Y.

` CU`| FILM HOLDER. -APPLlATm'N man nula. 1914.

1,151,153. @m1-116mg. 21,1915.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

FREDERICK W. BARNES AND FRANKv W. LOVEJ OY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK ASSIGNORS TO EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CUT-'FILM HOLDER.

Application filed May 13, 1914. Serial No. 838,190.

T0 all 'whom 'it may concern Y Be it known that we, FREDERICK W. BARNES and FRANK W. LovEJoY, of Rochester, in the county `of Monroe and State of/ New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cut-Film Holders; and we do hereby declare the following to 1bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of 'this specification, and to the referenceenumerals marked thereon.

j Our present invention relates to photography and i,more particularly to handling devicesfor cut film sheets during the developing, fixing, washing and drying thereof, or

such other treatments'as it is desired to subject the films to, and the invention has for its object to provide a simple, light, cheap and eflicient holding frame for the films that will be convenient to use and which will adequately protect them duringI the operations mentioned while still exposing them entirely to the action of the baths or the drying agents.

lTo these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and. combinations of parts all as lwill be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed outin the claims at the end of the.

specification.

vIn the drawings: Figure 1 is a front ele-I vation of a cut film holder constructed in accordance with and illustrating one em.- bodiment vof our invention, a lm being shown in place therein, and Figf2 is a bottom end view of the wire frame, the holding clips and film being shown in section along the line .Q -2, Fig. 1.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several figures indicate the sameparts.

While the device of our invention is suitable for` application to the handling of any flexible photographic sheet, 'it is especiallyv designed to accommodate the cut hns'or `flexible flat sensitized sheets of the larger sizes, now quite generally used for portrait work, during the operations before 'mentioned. To these ends, we provide, in the v may Abe-convenientlyv from a substantially -round wire, as shown. It is rectangular in v general shape and comprises upper and practice of our invention, a' flat frame that and cheaply formed continuous length of -surrounding the pintle.

.will, as the case may be.

= engaged at the suspended from the lower end rails 1 and 2, respectively, and

upon itselfl at each end to constitute laterally projecting supporting arms 4 that may be laid upon suitable parallel supports B to suspend the frame and its contents either in the bath or while being dried in the air. The same rail may be further provided at a central point with an eye 5 vhaving extended therefrom a laterally offset hook 6 as an additional means for suspending the frame from a nail, a line or other similar support.

At each corner of the frame, eachl rail is bent inwardly at 7 in advance of its juncture with the adjoining rail to fprm" a jog' or reversed corner and-on the said portion 7 of one such two adjoining rails (in the prescnt instance, the siderail) is mounted, in

portion 7 and carryingA a pintle.'9 and al movable jawV 10 working in opposition thereto on the pintle 9, the jaws being normally held closed together by a spring 11 They are opened by simply pressing down upon the operating portion 12 of the upper jaw and may thus be made to grasp or to release the sheet, at

The film sheet to be treated 'at A and the frame is made of such a size with relation thereto that the clips may be extreme corners thereof in the manner shown and the sheet securely -held taut'in fiat condition with bothrof its sides fullyexposed to whatever agents, liq

uid or gaseous,'lto which it is desired to expose it. While in the developing, fixing or washing tanks, the frame will preferably be j supportingjrods B.

It willl be observed that the inwardly turned portions 7 of the rails give extended lengthwise support to the clips 8 1() while Madama the rails themselves are spaced outwardly from the edges of the sheet A and protect the latter from contact with the sides of the vessel containing the bath and from other bodies. We claim as our invention:

1. An article of the character described comprising an open frame having a plurality of sheet holding 'devices arranged in spaced relation thereon and composed of a rod or Wire doubled upon itself at opposite corners near one end to form laterally projecting supporting arms from Which the frame is adapted to be suspended.

2. An article of the character described comprising an open frame having one of two adjacent rails turned inwardly in advance of its junction with the other rail and a sheet holding device mounted on said inwardly turned portion for the purpose set forth. i

3. An article of the character'described comprising an openv rectangular frame'composed of bent Wire-and having an inwardly turned jog at each corner and a sheet holdlng clip at each corner of the frame comprising a iXed "jaw secured upon an in-` FREDERICK W. BARNES. ERANKW. LovEJoY.

Witnesses:`

M. B. LAIDLAW, M. R. MGBRIDE. 

